PRISMATIC SPIRALS FONT!
The Prismatic Spirals Font is a decorative type-system and ‘Assembling Game’, itself. Settled in squared pieces modules or tiles, embedded by an unprecedented Intertwined Prismatic Sculptural Design, or Interlaced and Interlocked and Bars that may seem quite “impossible” to shape.
Although it originated from the ‘Penrose Square’, it may not look totally as an Impossible Figures Type of Optical Illusions. More an “improbable” Aftermath in its Intertwined Design, that even static can seem like it is in motion as Kinetical Sculptures, or drive eyes into a kind of hypnosis.
Prismatic Spirals has two related families, its “bold” braided version Prismatic Interlaces and the Pro version. While the default is simpler or easier to use, as all piece’s spin in same way, PRO provides a more complex intricate Design which requires typing alternating caps.
Characters Instructions:
Use the Map Font Reference PDF as a guide to learn the 'tiles' position on the keyboard, then easily type and compose “puzzle” designs with this Decorative Type-Systems fonts!
All alphanumeric keys are intuitive or easy to induce, you may easily memorize it all! Plus, instead often also need to consult it!
*Find the Prismatic Spirals Font Map Reference Interactive PDF Here!
(!) Is recommended to Print it to have the Reference in handy or open the PDF in second plan while composing a design to copy and paste, when consulting characters is required.
Line-height Instructions:
As a Tiles Type-System, the line gap space value is 0 or “invisible” so the user can compose a pattern descending line by line, however the line-height must be set to 100% or Normal.
Notice that there’s an issue in some cases like MS Word for example, that the default line-height is set to 1,15, so is required to change to 1,0 plus and remove space after paragraph, in the Paragraph section.
Only as a reminder, That’s no news for designers! Adobe Software’s requires to set body size and line-height values separately, in the character menu. So, both values must be equal, to remove the line gap.
Usage Tips:
Regarding Grammatical Spellcheck, since the text used for mapping the Design, won't make any orthographical sense, it must be set to ignore or disabled, to be better appreciated without being underlined in red.
Plus, a Tip for Exporting PNGs! After finishing a layered design with these Tiles Face in Adobe Illustrator (for example) a few line gap “glitches” can appear in PNGs. Take this final procedure: back-up works, expand selections and apply merge filter, it will perfectly remove it!
Background History:
As a curiosity, the first sketches of this Prismatic Knots and Spirals Designs dates from 2010, while starting developing hand-drawn Celtic Knots and Geometric Drawings in grid paper, while engaging in affairs of Typography, Sacred Geometry and the “Impossible Figures” genre…
Since then, started doing the first modulation tests in 2013, and around 2018 got to unravel this “game” in square modules or tiles from grid work, plus idealized to turn to fonts… It took 13 years since the first sketches, discovering this design to complete the editions only in 2023.
During the production some additional tiles were thought and summed to the set, which firstly had only the Borders Segments, Corners, Crossings, Trivets Connectors or T parts, Ends, plus Nets, afterwards completed with a set that integrates nets and borders plus diagonals.
Usage Suggestions:
This Decorative type-system enables the user to generate and ornate endless patterns, mosaics, motifs, borders, labyrinthine designs, etc. It may also seem just like a puzzle or game, but a much important tool when used for serious purposes such as composing Enigmatic Diagrams.
Also, obviously the user can turn the Tiles to Real Text by Typing piece by piece, assembling the characters or modules. So, it can literarily reproduce or convert any Pixel Design or font in any languages as Kufic Arabic and further scripts to its Prismatic Spirals correspondent form.
This Typeface was made to contemplate, be applied, and manufactured into Infinite Decorative Designs as Tiled Pavements, Tapestry, Frames, Prints, Fabrics, Wallpapers, Coloring Books, Cards, Games, Architectonic Frontispieces, Storefronts, Ornamental Design and Jewelry, for example.
Further Words:
Whenever an Architect picks this Decorative Type-System to Design pavements floors and walls, a printed instruction version of the layout with the ‘map’ font must be helpful and required to the masons that will lay the tiles, to place the pieces and its directions in the right way.
Concerning tiles manufacturing or other Products, any of its repeated pieces was perfectly measured, so just rotating it in different directions, when sided by other pieces in any direction will fit perfectly without any mispatching errors. Plus, all font styles match perfectly central pasted.
Copyright Disclaimer:
The Font Software’s are protected by Copyright Laws and its licenses grant the user the right to design, apply its contours, to Screen, Print and Manufacture in flat or 2D planes only. In the case of these embedded sculptures designs set by pieces built in 3D Solid form, a new copyright and licensing will be requested, and Font licenses will not be valid or authorized for recasting it.
© 2023 André Themoteo Alves Corrêa (Dr. Andréground).
